Snookie, is your point that no one cares about black ghetto gun deaths, that the upset over the spree killings by white males is purely a white issue?
If so, you are certainly correct about that. Black gun deaths ARE often multiple and some could be considered spree killings -- though I think they are mostly targeted deaths, ways of enforcing black market "contracts" by death and injury, since the drug economy can't be enforced by law or courts. And of course they have a high bystander death rate, but I don't THINK this is the same as spree killing -- they just miss the drug dealer and hit the girl who sang at Obama's inauguration.
The rampage killings are purely a white issue. Suburban white males, young and old (and a few in the middle age who kill their families or go into the workplace guns a-blazing) are going into public settings and trying to kill as many strangers as possible before they have to kill themselves in advance of the police. This is very scary to a lot of white people! Not unnaturally.
But I would say it's not at all the same as drug-violence in the ghetto.
You do make me realize that our attitude tends to be, nobody can stop what's going on in the ghetto, and they like to do it, so it's like Syria --- let them get on with it. It's their business, not ours.
Interesting. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
